...Yu Ming Zhang; Yu-Ping Yang; Wei Zhang; Suck-Joo Na Welding is a major manufacturing process that joins two or more pieces of materials together through heating/mixing them followed by cooling/solidification. The goal of welding manufacturing is to join materials together to meet service...

... manuscript received August 13, 2018; published online September 17, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Wayne Cai. 09 05 2018 13 08 2018 1 Corresponding author. Materials processing Nontraditional manufacturing processes Welding Joining The ability to join dissimilar or advanced...

...Bastian Geißler; Tobias Laumer; Andrea Wübbeke; Thomas Frick; Volker Schöppner; Michael Schmidt Laser transmission welding is a well-known joining technology for welding thermoplastics. Although the process is already used industrially, fundamental process-structure-property relationships...

...Xun Liu; Sheng Zhao; Kai Chen; Jun Ni In this study, the friction stir welding (FSW) of aluminum alloy 6061-T6511 to TRIP 780 steel is analyzed under various process conditions. Two FSW tools with different sizes are used. To understand the underlying joining mechanisms and material flow behavior...

... . 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received February 19, 2018; final manuscript received July 19, 2018; published online August 31, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Wayne Cai. 19 02 2018 19 07 2018 Welding Joining Many industrial applications need heat resistant steel due...

...Kai Chen; Xun Liu; Jun Ni A hybrid friction stir resistance spot welding (RSW) process is applied for joining aluminum alloy 6061 to TRIP 780 steel. Compared with conventional RSW, the applied current density is lower and the welding process remains in the solid state. Compared with conventional...

... the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for United States government purposes. Manuscript received January 29, 2018; final manuscript received July 10, 2018; published online August 3, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Wayne Cai. 29 01 2018 10 07 2018 Welding Joining...

...YunWu Ma; GuanZhong He; Ming Lou; YongBing Li; ZhongQin Lin Friction self-piercing riveting (F-SPR) process has shown advantages over fusion welding, solid state welding, and traditional mechanical joining processes in joining dissimilar materials. Because of the thermo-mechanical nature of F-SPR...

...Brandon P. Smith; Mahdi Ashrafi; Mark E. Tuttle; Santosh Devasia This paper investigates an out-of-autoclave (OoA), embedded-resistive heating method to precisely control the bondline temperature when curing high strength adhesives for joining composite adherends. A challenge with OoA methods...

... Joining where I p is the value of given peak current and I p_e is the effective value of peak current under the exponential waveform; Δ =  I p – I p_e . The physical meaning of the correction coefficient K is described later. It adopts the effective value I p_e of peak current...

... energy, and therefore, promotes the formation of a localized weld. 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received March 21, 2018; final manuscript received May 21, 2018; published online June 28, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Zhijian J. Pei. 21 03 2018 21 05 2018 Welding Joining...

...C. Zhang; H. Li; M. Q. Li Solid-state hot press bonding is an advanced joining process wherein two specimens can be joined under high pressure for a period of time at an elevated temperature. The main step in hot press bonding is the void closure process. In the present study, a three-dimensional...

... March 18, 2018; published online May 21, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Donggang Yao. 05 11 2017 18 03 2018 Additive manufacturing Injection molding Rapid prototyping Welding Polymer fabrication processes Solid freeform fabrication Joining Despite its disruptive potential...

... denatured tissue zone size. 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received October 27, 2017; final manuscript received February 25, 2018; published online April 2, 2018. Editor: Y. Lawrence Yao. 27 10 2017 25 02 2018 Biomedical manufacturing Welding Joining Bipolar...

..., poses significant challenges to the existing joining technologies, especially in regard to single-sided joint access. To address this issue, the current study applied the friction stir blind riveting (FSBR) process to join 1.2 mm-thick AA6022-T4 aluminum alloy to 3 mm-thick Aural-2 cast aluminum...

... of high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) measurement systems and the extensive time for data acquisition place critical challenges in obtaining high-resolution surface data [ 2 ]. For example, in electric vehicle manufacturing, ultrasonic metal welding has been widely adopted for battery joining [ 4 – 8...

... Assembly Modeling and simulation Welding Joining Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining process that is capable of welding similar and dissimilar metals. The solid-state nature of the process signifies the fact that the temperature during the FSW process remains below the melting...

... of the welded joints were examined using optical and scanning electron microscope. The transient temperatures near the faying surfaces and horn-workpiece interfaces were recorded to understand the weld growth mechanism. It was found that it is feasible to join 4-mm-thick lapped carbon fiber reinforced nylon 66...

... to divide realistic mechanical parts into subparts that can be joined together through additive manufacturing or linear friction welding (LFW). The optimization method presents possible manufacturing alternatives to an engineering designer where optimality is defined as a minimization of cost. The paper...

.... , and Nichols , E. D. , 1999 , “ Feasibility of Friction Stir Welding Steel ,” Sci. Technol. Weld. Joining , 4 ( 6 ), pp. 365 – 372 . 10.1179/136217199101538012 [14] Lienert...